CARE Foundation is the pioneer of a Government School Adoption Program in Pakistan.
It is a unique partnership of the private and public sector to provide quality education to the masses through previously failed government schools.
The partnership began in 1998 when the Metropolitan Corporation of Lahore offered CARE to adopt the failed government-run schools. The schools were in a terrible condition, but CARE accepted this huge challenge, despite its limited resources.
Ten failed government schools were adopted as a pilot project. CARE transformed these schools by providing trained staff and missing facilities including furniture, science laboratories, libraries, computer labs and additional classrooms, as well as clean drinking water.
The changes in academic infrastructure and teaching methodology have increased the enrolment rate in these schools by 500 percent.
Today, CARE is educating thousands of children in over 850 schools adopted from the government.
It has proven to be a highly cost effective and scalable model, utilising the existing infrastructure. The model can be replicated in as many schools across Pakistan as resources permit.